Mississippi Personhood Amendment

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Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media

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That's putting a lot of faith in the government, though. There are a lot of things that they should be doing before they punish anyone, but just because they should doesn't mean that they do. Like, cops shouldn't be pepper spraying people who are in compliance with the law and asking for badge numbers, but they do it. They shouldn't be punching 15 year old girls in the face, but they do it. Judges shouldn't be deciding to execute someone for a murder that they didn't commit because, "Yeah, the scientific evidence proves they're innocent, but ~I have a gut feeling that he's guilty~ so we're going to execute him anyway." But they do. The justice system is supposed to prove the accused's guilt, not make the accused prove their innocence, but that happens on a daily basis. People get short ended by policies and the personal opinions of those who uphold them, every day.

So what's stopping them from prosecuting women for things out of their control?

There was a case of a teenaged girl who had no idea she was pregnant. She was a drug addict, and they charged her with manslaughter and threw her in prison, even after admitting that the drugs most likely had nothing to do with her miscarriage. :/ She should've been put into rehab, and instead, they put her in prison, and god only knows what happened to her. There was another woman who tried to commit suicide, but happened to be pregnant. Manslaughter. Prison. Even though the baby survived, and didn't die until after birth. Should she have been charged with it? Debatable, because then, it intersects with suicide, and whether or not it's her right to decide to end her own life (which I believe it is)... while pregnant.

I read them months ago, but if you'd like to read it, I can try to find them.